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by: Peter J. Kreeft
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 230.2
EAN: 9780898704389
ISBN: 0898704383
Label: Ignatius Press
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 162
Publication Date: 1993-04
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Sales Rank: 222413
Studio: Ignatius Press
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Rating:  - The Skinny on the Dumb Ox
Should you buy this book? Yes, if it is for you as a newbie Catholic, or if you have a child in a secular Junior High or High School. You may also be like Oswald Sobrino, who said, "Ironically, I was cheated at a Catholic university of exposure to Aquinas!" Cleary the victim of theological malpractice.
You need to `Know Your Religion,' and this book is a great place to start. Kreeft's plain English explanation of Catholic high Orthodoxy makes this book worth its weight in gold. ... Read More
Rating:  - Thomas Aquinas's Greatest Hits
Kreeft has reduced the most important parts of the Summa Theologica into about 130 pages in "A Shorter Summa". I appreciated the Glossary in the Introductory pages that provided the philosophical definitions of words like "accident", "essence," and "nominal", which Thomas Aquinas uses. If I came across a word I wasn't sure about later in the book, I could always refer back to the Glossary.
The basic structure of the Summa is for St. Thomas to state a question such as "Can it be demonstrated ... Read More
Rating: - It has Aquinas, it HAS to be good!
This very short book gives some of the most essential philosophical passages (as selected and footnoted by Kreeft) of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica.
For anyone who wishes to delve into Aquinas, but does not feel able to tackle the material by itself or even to try Kreeft's much longer "Summa of the Summa," then this book is perfect.
"A Shorter Summa" allows you to stick you big toe in to test the water of Thomistic thought. No doubt you will find it to your liking, and wish ... Read More
Rating: - A Welcome Tutorial on Aquinas
Peter Kreeft of Boston College has performed a work of mercy for those of us who were cheated in college by being kept in blithe ignorance of the greatest Christian philosopher. Ironically, I was cheated at a Catholic university of exposure to Aquinas! But Peter Kreeft has provided selections of Aquinas with generous footnotes explaining and enlightening various passages and even including diagrams for those of us trying to catch up. I can comfort myself with the thought that a well annotated book by Kreeft, who ... Read More
Rating: - Aquinian redux of expert scholarship
One need not be a Christian, nor even a Roman Catholic, to know of the centrality of Saint Thomas Aquinas to medeival philosophy. In his monumental work, the "Summa Theologia" (and, to a lesser extent, the supplementary tract "Summa Contra Gentiles"), Aquinas kept Aristotelian 'pagan' philosophy alive by applying its principles to the Church. Unfortunately, readers today (save for the most devout, I suppose) hardly have the time to read the whole thing. This is where Boston College's Peter Kreeft helps out. Further ... Read More
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